文档介绍：Scenario Visualization
Scenario Visualization
An Evolutionary Account of Creative Problem Solving
Robert Arp
A Bradford Book
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Arp, Robert.
Scenario visualization : an evolutionary account of creative problem solving / Robert
Arp.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-262-01244-7 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Visualization. 2. Problem
solving—Methodology. 3. Creative thinking.
I. Title.
2008
’2—dc22
2007032256
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: Routine Problem Solving versus Nonroutine Creative
Problem Solving 1
anisms and anization 11
2 Emergence and Function 29
3 The Visual System 57
4 The Evolution of the Visual System and Scenario Visualization 91
5 Scenario Visualization, Creative Problem Solving, and Evolutionary
Psychology 133
References 167
Index 207
Acknowledgments
Throughout the construction of this book, I learned fi rsthand that philoso-
phy and the academic world, in general, are social enterprises. I could not
pleted this book without so many helpful and rigorous people.
e Terzis, the director of my doctoral dissertation and philosophical
mentor at Saint Louis